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Mining & the mines, 1915

4,404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 221

Miners Wage Agreements. London, Friday Morning

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 5

A conference of the Miners Federation has decided not to fix a time limit on the wage agreements…

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Fleet of Mine-layers. Vancouver

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 5

A London message reports that a large fleet of German trawlers loaded with mines passed The Skaw, the northern extremity of Jutland, Denmark, all hound westward…

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More German Mines. Copenhagen, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 7

A flotilla of German trawlers laden with mines has passed the Skaw westward…

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Queensland's Output. Gold Storage Accommodation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 6

Queensland has just sent away butter in one shipment to the value of £108,000, and cheese in another vessel to the amount of 4000 crates. The season for…

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Mount Lyell Mine. Month's Output. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 9

The Mount Lyell Company's smelting return from January 21 to February 17, inclusive, is as follows:—27,168 tons of ore treated, being 16,515 tons from the Mount Lyell mine, and…

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New Coal Boat. Arrival of the Wallarah

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 5

The Wallarah Coal Company's new coaster, the Wallarah, arrived off Sydney Heads lust night and waited outside till daylight. She is under the command of Captain William…

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Mining. Position Unaltered. Speculation Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 9

Token all-round, the position yesterday of mining stocks on the Stock Exchange was practically unaltered, excepting that the call for tin propositions fell off noticeably…

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The Menace of the Mine. More German Unscrupulousness. London

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 15

The naval correspondent of the "Times" writes:— "The destruction of the American steamer Evelyn corroborates Admiral…

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The War From Day to Day a Close Shave German Wreckers at Work Dodging Torpedoes and Mines. the Reward of Vigilance

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 1

The great blockade by means of which Germany was going to starve Britain, and drive British shipping off the seas, has now been in progress for a week,…

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The Mine-sweepers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 16

Miss Mary Jay acknowledges the receipt of a number of knitted socks for the mine sweepers in the North Sea. The girls of the Armidale knitting class sent 40 pairs Miss Jay is now despatching the second hundred…

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Southern Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 10

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--All the local collieries are working fairly well. The Mount pleasant mine has seven days for the pay and this week it worked four days; Mount Keira…

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The coal export trade during the week was slack, the amount, sent to places beyond the State being 83,904 tons. Of the total 44,928 tons went to Commonwealth…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 19

The directors of the Araluen Redbank Gold Dredging Company, N.L., have declared a dividend (the thirtieth) of 6d per share (free of income tax), payable on March 15. The…

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Finding Channels Through Mine Fields

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 22

If British submarines have got into the Baltic, it is easily explained. They have followed the same course as that adopted by our submarines, which entered Heligoland Bight in…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 13

The first year's work of the Malaya Tin Corporation, Ltd., was reviewed at the annual meeting of shareholders in Sydney yesterday, Mr. C. H. Kerry presiding over a large…

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Carpathu the Mine. More Light Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 19

The secretary to the above company, Mr. R. Vernon Saddington, writing in renly to the comments of the "Herald" on the neeessity for full information being supplied to [?] sharenolders respecting tlie size and…

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Miners' Claims. Fail at Wollongong. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 13

In the Industrial Court yesterday, before Mr. Addision, Chief Industrial Magistrate, William Dalton, miner, proceeded against Corrimal Balgownie Colliery Company, claiming £1 Os…

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Coal Trade. Hands Discharged. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 13

For to-day's pay Mount Keira draws eight days, Mount Pleasant eight, Mount Kembla 11, and Corrimal full time. At South Bull[?] colliery the men have worked full time after…

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Gas Plate Attachment for a Coal Range

The World's News · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 11

IN the place of the shelf which came attached to the range stove I fastened a two-burner gas plate (says a writer in "Popular Mechanics") The legs on the gas plate were…

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Mining. Prices Current on 'Change

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 13

There was again a firm tone on the mining section of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Business continued restricted, but buyers generally appeared more willing to come to…

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